M. Ressler Genealogical Database

Notes for Christian Hirschi and Anna Rehs

1627 Christian Hirschi was born in Schangnau, Bern. [1]

1671 Christian Hirschi was exiled in 1671. [2]

1672 Christian Hirschi was a Swiss Anabaptist refugee, age 45, living at Friedelsheim, Bayern, Germany on 6 April 1672 with his wife Anna Rehs age 49 years. "They have three children still in Switzerland". They received 1 mattress, clothing for both, 2 sheets, 2 shirts and money for debt for land taken on. He probably lived at Schangnau, Bern, Switzerland. [3][4]

1672 Christian Hirschi was listed as one of the tenants at Friedelsheim on 26 June 1672. [5]

1672 Christian Hirschi was mentioned as an Anabaptist at Schangnau, Bern in 1672. [6]

1682 Christian Hirschi was listed as a tenant at Freidelsheim on 30 Dec 1682. [7]

1682 Christian Hirschi died after 1682 in Friedelsheim, Bayern, Germany. [8]
Footnotes:

[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com, Hershey A193,B.

[2] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com, Hershey A193,B.

[3] James W. Lowrey, David Smucker and John Ruth, eds., Documents of Brotherly Love, Dutch Mennonite Aid to Swiss Anabaptists Swiss Migration to America: the Swiss Mennonites, Vol. 1 (2007), 459, [Google_Book].

[4] Charles Whitmer, "Swiss Anabaptist Refugees from Canton Bern in the German Palatinate in 1671," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 24 (April, 2001), 2-18, at 10, family 77.

[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com, Hershey A193,B.

[6] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com, Hershey A193,B.

[7] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com, Hershey A193,B.

[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com, Hershey A193,B.